When you boot up Windows 7, you will see the animation of the Windows Flag waving and glowing. Little do most people know that you can tweak the settings so that the GUI doesn’t boot. Depending on your hardware and system configuration, you might save anywhere from 4-8 seconds literary by removing this. Apparently, this trick has been in previous versions of Windows.
Chase Carey -- President, Chief Operating Officer, and Deputy Chairman of News Corp. -- Guy with Awesome Mustache
“With a new structure in place, now is the right time to consider strategic options for this business,” COO Chase Carey told analysts. “The new MySpace has been very well received by the market and we have some very encouraging metrics. But the plan to allow MySpace to reach it’s full potential may be best achieved under a new owner.”
If it were ever in doubt, it now seems clear News Corp.‘s latest big cutback to the service last month was to get it in shape for some kind of sale. Carey’s comments are a come-and-get-me to potential bidders.
In a strong rebuke of President Obama and his domestic agenda, all 242 House Republicans voted Wednesday to repeal the Asteroid Destruction and American Preservation Act, which was signed into law last year to destroy the immense asteroid currently hurtling toward Earth.
The $440 billion legislation, which would send a dozen high-thrust plasma impactor probes to shatter the massive asteroid before it strikes the planet, would affect more than 300 million Americans and is strongly opposed by the GOP.
Google has added two new improvements to GMail regarding contact groups.
Simply Add to Group
Let’s say, for example, that you have a few email addresses (or even one, if you prefer) and you want to add them to a certain group; you can now just type in the contact name or a new email address into the new field in the old Add to “GROUP_NAME” button.
Have you ever gone onto a website, and then wanted to share it with your friends by just the simple drag of a mouse? No more opening a new tab, thinking of the right message, blah blah. No! Now you can just drag a link, while keeping open your window, into SnagB, and share through “the easiest and fastest way to share content”. Just log into http://www.SnagB.com/ using your favorite Internet browser.
The other day, I heard on a CNN commercial that Larry King is going to talk to someone who says that Palin is more influential than Obama. The reason for that is that Palin is a public figure, she’s a celebrity! Obama is just doing his job, and he’s doing it pretty well in my opinion.
If you want to say “well obama isnt doing his job very well” than just read what I have to say:
I have to disagree, Austin. I think that Obama is at the top of his game. The economic depression just ended (according to the “officials”), his supporter ratings are going slowly and shakily up (but still up). We are also in the middle of an election race; but the Democrats are at the top (probably thanks to the Tea-Party).
A top news headline is about the Pentagon buying and destroying thousands of copies of an army officer’s published memoir. http://bit.ly/9NpCaP. Let me bring a contradiction: Why did they buy a thousand copies?! If the book was REALLY dangerous, they should’ve just stopped the printing and called a recall for all the books! We can see from there that, after all, the books are, in fact, okay to read.
You know what the Pentagon just did to itself, also? Now, after this HUGE story, people are starting to buy “Operation Dark Heart” like crazy. It’s a top book on sites like Amazon right now.
A campaign started by Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates and billionaire investor Warren Buffett now has over 38 US billionaires pledging to give at least 50% of their wealth to charity. It is called “The Giving Pledge”.
The campaign list includes names like George Lucas, David Rockefeller, Ted Turner and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen. George Lucas has publicly said, “I am giving the majority of my wealth to improving education. It is the key to the survival for the human race.”
Not too long ago, Google moved the Chrome bookmarks manager from a separate application window into a tab. Recently, work began on moving Chrome’s options menu into a tab as well. While it’s still not fully functional, chrome://options has come a long way in a short amount of time.
Google’s blog announced that Google Wave, the innovative communication platform released last year, will be discontinued.
Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site at least through the end of the year and extend the technology for use in other Google projects. The central parts of the code, as well as the protocols that have driven many of Wave’s innovations, like drag-and-drop and character-by-character live typing, are already available as open source, so customers and partners can continue the innovation we began.
Google Wave had a lot of nice features, but the interface was, in my opinion, really confusing and difficult to use. I had never really learned how to use the Google Wave service, but this is what I have heard from many places:
Many thought that Google Wave would reinvent email. Google Wave allowed you to create "live" documents that are edited collaboratively in real-time, but it’s more than a conversational version of Google Docs. It’s based on an open protocol, so you could edit a wave using multiple services. It’s extensible, so you could build gadgets and robots that add new functionality. Google Wave had a lot of potential, but Google wasn’t able manage to build a compelling user experience and define some use cases for the application. Instead of building a general-purpose interface for Google Wave, Google could’ve used the platform to create multiple applications with clearly-defined goals: a new version of Google Chat, a new version of Google Docs, a brainstorming app, etc.
Now that Google Wave is discontinued, some of its feature will be added to other Google services like GMail, and Google Docs; however, the Google Wave original platform will vanish. It’s clear that Google doesn’t want to invest in little services, which is a big opportunity for startups. "We want to do things that matter to a large number of people at scale," said Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt.
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